Buffer Overflow Affecting kernel-rt-trace-devel package, versions <0:3.10.0-957.rt56.910.el7
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRTTRACEDEVEL-2111577
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 2 Dec 2017
Introduced: 2 Dec 2017
CVE-2018-5848 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 kernel-rt-trace-devel to version 0:3.10.0-957.rt56.910.el7 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-trace-devel package and not the kernel-rt-trace-devel package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the function wmi_set_ie(), the length validation code does not handle unsigned integer overflow properly. As a result, a large value of the 'ie_len' argument can cause a buffer overflow in all Android releases from CAF (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5848
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-05-01
- https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/05/11/may-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin-2
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096